[ Introduction | Song Index ]
(Sullivan, Nelson, Dean, White, Gill)
We live in a bowl made of sky and stars
Perched on the edge of the world
And around the Reservation everyone drives
In pick-ups and beaten-up cars
And the rattles and drums they rise and they fall
The circle unbroken in the village hall
With the flag of the conquerors high on the wall
And the sound of the foghorn on the island
Ch:
Bury my heart deep in the forest
Perish my body in the cold, cold water
And bless what is left, bless what is left of the tribe
There were fish and there were whales out past the jagged
rocks
Sharp like the teeth of the bay
And there are credit cheques cashed down at the village store
And junk food and beer for the day
And the rattles and drums they rise and they fall
The unbroken circle in the village hall
With the flag of the conquerors high on the wall
And the sound of the foghorn on the island
Ch
Look away, look away, the wolf transforms into a man
Some things should never be seen
And a hundred great birds swoop down across the breakers
And the Spirit Wind blows and things they just happen
Ch
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Today Is a Good Day - CD (9/09)
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(Rolling Stones)
Well, I told you once and I told you twice
But you never listen to my advice
You don't try very hard to please me
With what you know it should be easy
Ch:
Well, this could be the last time
This could be the last time
Maybe the last time
I don't know
Oh no, oh no
Well, I'm sorry, girl, but I can't stay
Feeling like I do today
It's too much pain and too much sorrow
Guess I'll feel the same tomorrow
Ch
Well, I told you once and I told you twice
Someone will have to pay the price
Here's a chance to change your mind
'Cause I'll be gone a long, long time
Ch
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Feb.-Jul. 93 - Love of Hopeless Causes Tour (Europe, UK,
USA, Canada)
Dec. 94 - UK Tour/Feb. 95 - Europe Tour
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Leeds Road 3am
(Sullivan/Dean)
The Festival is over and the strings of coloured lights
are blowing crazy in the coming wind
One bulb comes loose, shatters on the ground
The empty streets pick up the sound, it echoes like a tiny gunshot
ringing through the damp and through the silence
Water trickles slowly like the feel of troubles only half washed away
Behind the wire the watchman doing nights sits beside a wall of screens
but he’s not watching - gazing into the steam rising from his cup of coffee
He’s locked away inside
Staring into the light of a different world.
Near the top of Rushton Street, there’s a parked
Mondeo
in the shadows
The lighting of a cigarette illuminates four faces not talking, just waiting
The man in the front passenger seat holds the phone to his ear
listens to a thin voice giving the details
While in the back the boy with the long hair
stares out through the misty glass into the dark streets
and into the light of a different world
Three streets down the restaurant is empty, 3am weeknights,
deadtime
The owner came here years ago and never lost the dream of going home
but knows he never will
In the kitchen his son sits head in hands thinks about leaving
Anywhere - just somewhere that’s not here
Doesn’t look up or see the Mondeo passing outside
He’s staring into the light of a different world
There’s a couple in a red car coming home late on the
inner ring
not talking or listening to the music just lost in their own thoughts
The Mondeo shoots the lights at sixty-five
Swerves, catches the red car that spins and rolls
Lands upside down in a crumple of metal and shattered glass
The girl sits trapped inside watching new blood trickle down
her shoulder
Turns to see her boyfriend slumped against the dash
as a little crowd gathers round
‘Make him wake up, make him wake up’ she’s screaming
‘Make him wake up, make him wake up’ and now she’s pushing at
him
‘Make him wake up, make him wake up’
But he’s gone
Staring into the light of a different world
Gazing into the light of a different world
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Eight - CD (1/00)
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(Chris Montez)
Hey baby, won't you take a chance?
Say that you'll let me have this dance
Ch:
Well let's dance, well let's dance
We'll do the twist, the stomp, the mashed potato too,
Any old dance that you wanna do
But let's dance, well let's dance
Hey baby, yeah, you thrill me so
Hold me tight, don't you let me go
Ch:
But let's dance . . .
Hey baby, if you're all alone
Maybe you'll let me walk you home
Ch
Hey baby, things are swingin' right
Yes, I know that this is the night
Ch
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(Mersea Island Essex Youth Camp, 26/07/86) - Clog Dancers
- Bootleg 7"
26/07/86 - Mersea Island Festival, Colchester
Aug.-Dec. 86 - Ghost of Cain Tour (UK, Europe, USA, Canada)
Mar. 87 - Northern Europe Tour
Jul. 88 - Northern Europe Festivals
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(Sullivan/Morrow)
Take away our history
Take away our heroes
Take away our values
And leave us here with nothing
We were in the garden of Eden
Just as children mess around
We only leant against the tree
And the apple came tumbling down
You gave us what we asked for
But never what we wanted
We were only children
How could you have been so stupid
We went up to the steel walls
That guard the sacred town
We only whispered to ourselves
And the walls came tumbling down
We didn't want a victory
We just wanted to fight
But you wouldn't fight
You just gave in
You went and spoiled every game
You broke an everlasting chain
And nobody respects you for your weakness
Take away our idols
Take away our faith
Take away our hatred
And put us in this vacuum
Then say be yourself, please yourself
Express yourself some more
It's your right to do what you like
'Cos we can't really be bothered with you at all
We didn't want a victory
We just wanted to fight
But you wouldn't fight
You said it isn't nice to fight
You went and spoiled every game
You broke an everlasting chain
And nobody respects you for your weakness
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Vengeance - LP (4/84)
Vengeance - The Independent Story - CD (6/87)
(David Jensen Show) - Radio Sessions 83-83 - CD (6/88)
(David Jensen Show) - Radio Sessions 83-83 - LP (6/88)
Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD (6/95)
(David Jensen Show) - Vengeance/Radio Sessions - Double Picture CD (6/95)
Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
(David Jensen Show) - Smalltown England - Double CD (97)
(Harmonica Version) - 51st State - 12" (Bootlegged
Bootleg on B-Side) (10/86)
(Harmonica Version) - 51st State - 12" (plus Bootlegged Bootleg) (10/86)
(London Brixton Academy, 16/06/90) - Raw Melody Men CD - CD (5/91)
(London Brixton Academy, 16/06/90) - Raw Melody Men CD - Double LP (5/91)
(Harmonica Version) - All of This - The "Live" Rarities
- CD (4/99)
(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City 23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
(Remastered) - No Rest for the Wicked - Double CD
(5/2005)
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - Heroes
of a Ghost Town - Bootleg CD
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - European Tour '90 - Bootleg CD
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - Vagabonds - Bootleg CD
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - We Are Old, We Are Young . . . - Bootleg
LP
(Duesseldorf Philipshalle, 16/04/90) - State of Mind -
Bootleg CD
02/10/82 - Trades Club Hebden Bridges
Apr.-Jun. 84 - UK Tour
Sep.-Dec. 84 - Northern Europe/UK Tour
Jun. 85 - UK Tour
Sep.-Nov. 85 - Brave New World Tour (Europe, Japan, UK)
Feb.-Mar. 86 - UK Mini Tour
05/04/86 - Breekend Festival, Bree (Belgium)
26/07/86 - Mersea Island Festival, Colchester
Sep.-Oct. 87 - UK, Europe Tour
Sep. 88 - UK Tour
16/04/90 - Philipshalle, Duesseldorf (WDR Rocknacht)
Jun. 90 - UK Tour, Europe Festivals
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK, Europe)
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
Mar. 85 - Justin Sullivan - UK Mini Tour
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(Sullivan/Heaton)
I went to my mother,
Said - please make me king
I went to my mother
Said - I've got to be king
She said son - well you've got to wait your turn
Patience is a virtue that you never seemed to learn
You were born with nothing, to nothing you'll return
Ch:
Now, now the lights go out
There's no warning
Now, now the lights go out
There's no reason
Now, now the voices cry
We don't don't need you
I went to my father
Said please make me king
Went to my father
Said - I've got to be king
He said son - you've got to do your time
I've done 53 years and I haven't yet done mine
You're just one of the millions waiting in line
Ch
History gave us meaning, gave us a place
Gave my father reasons for the lines on his face
But we asked for the money and money they gave
And God how that made us easy to enslave
So today at the office we picked up
the cheque
The handshake of gold, the stab in the back
The old men went home silent and bowed
The young men went drinking, drowning it out
So in every street, in every town
Comes some young pretender
Just gunning for a crown - take it- take it all
Ch:
But now, now the lights go out . . .
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The Ghost of Cain - CD (9/86)
The Ghost of Cain - LP (9/86)
(Remastered) - The Ghost of Cain - Double CD (5/2005)
(Extended Mix) - Lights Go Out - 12" (3/87)
(Dub Mix) - Lights Go Out - 12" (3/87)
(Extended US Remix) - Vagabonds - Maxi CD (2/89)
(Extended US Remix) - B-Sides and Abandoned Tracks - CD (9/94)
(Remastered Extended US Remix) - The Ghost of Cain - Double CD (5/2005)
(London Town and Country Club, 23/12/86) - Join the Army - Bootleg LP
26/07/86 - Mersea Island Festival, Colchester
Aug.-Dec. 86 - Ghost of Cain Tour (UK, Europe, USA, Canada)
Mar. 87 - Northern Europe Tour
06/06/87 - Reichstag, Berlin
Aug. 87 - USA Tour
Sep.-Oct. 87 - UK, Europe Tour
Sep. 88 - UK Tour
Dez. 91 - UK, Germany Tour
Feb.-Jul. 93 - Love of Hopeless Causes Tour (Europe, UK, USA, Canada)
Jul.-Aug. 93 - Europe Festivals
03/07/99 - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Forestglade Festival,
Wiesen
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(Opus)
Ch:
Live
Live is life
Labadab dab dab live
Live is life
When we all give the power
We all give the best
Every minute of an hour
Don't think about the rest
Then you all get the power
You all get the best
When everyone gives everything
And every song everybody sings
Ch
Live is life when we all feel the power
Live is life come on, stand up and dance
Live is life when the feeling of the people
Live is life is the feeling of the band
When we all give the power
We all give the best
Every minute of an hour
Don't think about the rest
Then you all get the power
You all get the best
When everyone gives everything
And every song everybody sings
Ch
And you call when it's over
You call it should last
Every minute of the future
Is a memory of the past
'Cause we all gave the power
We all gave the best
And everyone gave everything
And every song everybody sang
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Sep.-Nov. 85 - Brave New World Tour (Europe, Japan, UK)
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(Sullivan/Heaton)
The lovers they kiss and slowly they turn
for drawing a breath there is nothing but time
A thousand million years before we crash in the sun
And I know we will be still here in Her
arms
In the thick black night we could lie in the grass
And gaze at the sky and watch the satellites pass
A thousand million miles the earth She will turn
Then still we will be here in Her arms
And if we can float away in our dreams
There's a city that waits under the sea
The days to pass living in
the rose
The seeded land slow and old
The scented air heavy and warm
Whispers, touches . . .
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The Love of Hopeless Causes - CD (4/93)
The Love of Hopeless Causes - LP (4/93)
Living in the Rose (The Ballads EP) - Maxi CD (6/93)
Living in the Rose (The Ballads EP) - 12" (6/93)
Compilation Video December 1993 - Video (12/93)
(The Making of) - Compilation Video December 1993 - Video (12/93)
The Best - CD (2001)
(Remastered) - Great Expectations - The Singles Collection - CD (10/03)
(Bielefeld PC 69, 09/05/98) - New Model Army . . . & Nobody Else - CD (8/99)
(9/94) - Big Guitars in Little Europe - CD (3/95)
Feb.-Jul. 93 - Love of Hopeless Causes Tour
(Europe, UK, USA, Canada)
Jul.-Aug. 93 - Europe Festivals
Aug.-Oct. 96 - Europe Festivals
Jun.-Aug. 97 - Europe Festivals
Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
Nov.-Dec. 93 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Europe Tour
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(Sullivan)
Holed up in your little room, we talk for hour on empty hour,
pacing up and down between the walls that we have built ourselves.
No more with the long goodbye, I can't stand another tear;
I won't wait for the bell to toll - straight
on for the days ahead,
straight on for the days ahead . . .
You act as drowning, letting go the fingers one by one.
Come on, there's life beyond the tomb that we have built ourselves;
no more with the long goodbye . . .
We don't even dare to look each other in the eyes,
or say whatever's on our minds . . .
These crushing moments show the kind of people we've become,
seal betrayal with a kiss - and let it all
be over, finished, done . . .
It feels so good to kill the beast that stood between the
truth and I
Make it quick and make it clean and let the blood run down
No more with the long goodbye . . .
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Strange Brotherhood - CD (4/98)
Strange Brotherhood - CD (plus Bonus CD) (4/98)
Strange Brotherhood - Triple LP (7/98)
Original 20 - CD (3/04)
(Paris La Cigale, 16/05/98) - New Model Army . . . & Nobody Else - CD (8/99)
Red Sky Coven Volume 3 - CD (1/01)
Justin Sullivan and Friends - DVD (10/04)
Aug.-Oct. 96 - Europe Festivals
Jun.-Aug. 97 - Europe Festivals
Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
Jun.-Sep. 98 - Europe Festivals
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Jul.-Aug. 99 - Europe Festivals
Nov. 99 - UK, Europe Tour
23/07/96 - Justin Sullivan - Kaue, Gelsenkirchen
Aug. 98 - Justin Sullivan - Germany Tour
Jan. 99 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour
Mar. 99 - Red Sky Coven - UK Tour
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(The Kingsmen)
Ch:
Louie, Louie, oh no, me gotta go
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Louie, Louie, oh baby, me gotta go
A fine little girl she
waits for me
Me catch a ship for cross the sea
Me sail that ship all alone
Me never think how I make it home
Ch
Three nights
and days I sail the sea
Think of that girl constantly
On that ship I dream she there
I smell the roses in her hair
Ch
Me see
Jamaica, moon above
It won't be long till I see my love
I take her in my arms again
I tell her, I'll never leave again
Ch
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(Europe, UK tour Jan. 04) Red Sky Coven Volume
5 - CD (1/09)
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(Sullivan/Heaton)
Under darkening thundering towering skies
We live through these painful days
Walking like strangers in streets of damnation
Under the enemy's gaze
Well we all create monsters
Come back for their masters
The prices the Devil reclaims
It's funny I never thought I'd be the one who would change
Now above and beyond the roofs of our city
The sunset spreads silent and gold
And we passing the time not thinking about you
Lost in our own little world
Well the other night we put the radio on
When we ran out of things we could say
But it always plays lovesongs
When you're far away
Forget all the lies, forget all the trouble
Forget all the things that I've done
And please believe like I still believe
The best is yet to come
The truth is yet to come
So damn all the world
And damn their demands
And all the things that they say
Cos they always play lovesongs
When you're far away
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The Ghost of Cain - CD (9/86)
The Ghost of Cain - LP (9/86)
(Remastered) - The Ghost of Cain - Double CD (5/2005)
Videos 86-89 (Bootlegged Bootleg) - Video
(89)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Raw Melody Men CD -
CD (5/91)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Raw Melody Men CD - Double LP (5/91)
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - BBC Radio One Live in Concert - CD (12/93)
(Nottingham etc.) - Rock City 23-10-2000 - Video (2001???)
(Remastered) - The Ghost of Cain - Double CD (5/2005)
(Live Justin Sullivan and Friends, 2002) -
Ocean Rising 2- CD Single (4/03)
Justin Sullivan and Friends - DVD (10/04)
(London Town and Country Club, 23/12/86) -
Join the Army - Bootleg LP
(Bonn Biskuithalle, 25/10/88) - In This Together - Bootleg LP
Aug.-Dec. 86 - Ghost of Cain Tour (UK, Europe,
USA, Canada)
Mar. 87 - Northern Europe Tour
06/06/87 - Reichstag, Berlin
Aug. 87 - USA Tour
Sep.-Oct. 87 - UK, Europe Tour
Jul. 88 - Northern Europe Festivals
Sep. 88 - UK Tour
25/10/88 - Biskuithalle, Bonn (WDR Rocknacht)
Jan.-Apr. 89 - Thunder and Consolation Tour (Europe, UK)
Jun.-Jul. 89 - Europe Festivals
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK, Europe)
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
Nov.-Dec. 93 - Justin Sullivan and Dave Blomberg - Europe Tour
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(Sullivan)
Busted out to the halfway house
At the top of Undercliffe Road
You and me and your motorbike
In the ice and drifting snow
3 a.m. and empty, the city ours alone
And laughing through the trails of frozen breathing
I swore to you that I could fly
If you'd only let me go
Holding on as we leant over
the edge of Baildon Moor
And far beneath the shadowed lands
The rocks and shapeless dark
And all that space for us to fall in
And all I could feel was myself falling...
Neon weekends and madhouse nights
And so much time to taste
We built monuments to the things we loved
Then laid each one to waste
All in suicidal vengeance
Screaming 'justice justice now'
As across the burning bridges we thundered
Now all the rooms at the Inn are taken
By those wiser than us
We're still driving for the sunset, love
And then on into the dusk
Because all the dreams were meaningless
And impossible to touch
But we're still crazed enough to drive for ever
I swear that I can stay awake forever
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Carnival - CD (9/05)
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(Sullivan)
So where do we begin? It must be thirty-five years . . .
You've the breath of my mother, the life of a stranger;
and there's so much to tell - so much I need to know.
All of the stories, and reasons . . .
But your face I remember, and your breath I remember . .
Take me in your arms, take me in your arms . . .
So go out tonight and look up at the stars,
the light that you see is as old as I am.
And that's what I see, when I gaze in your eyes . . .
Loving a ghost lost in confusion of time - but our love remains
through these brightest hours.
And my secret world . . .
And your face I remember - and your breath I remember . . .
Take me in your arms, take me in your arms . . .
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Strange Brotherhood - CD (4/98)
Strange Brotherhood - CD (plus Bonus CD) (4/98)
Strange Brotherhood - Triple LP (7/98)
Dec. 94 - UK Tour/Feb. 95 - Europe Tour
03/07/99 - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Forestglade Festival, Wiesen
Jul.-Aug. 99 - Europe Festivals
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(Heaton/Sullivan)
One swallow never made a spring
You can buy a crown - it doesn't make you king
Beware the trinkets that we bring
When the visionary dreams set hard and grey
As flesh made into stone
You tore the statues to the ground
Crying let our people go
And now they're gone, all is gone
But these changing winds can turn cold and hostile
The freedom passion and the two faced call
They dance together upon the wall
With nothing left to break the fall
Now twenty-five miles north in the great dark woods
The college buildings stand
And the ghosts of hope walk silent halls
At the death of the promised land
All is gone, all is gone
But these changing winds can turn cold and hostile
One swallow never made a spring . . .
And in the shadows of the crowded square
A thousand paper deals go down
And hungry sharks from everywhere
Smell the blood and head for town
Innocence starts to peel away
How money changes everything
The past it eats the future up
And this blind desire eats everything
Now the rats they leave one stricken ship
For another sailing past
Your world was going nowhere slow
While ours goes nowhere fast
And now it's gone, all is gone
But these changing winds can blow cold and hostile
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Impurity - CD (9/90)
Impurity - LP (9/90)
(Remastered) - Impurity - Double CD (5/2005)
(Remastered Acoustic Version) - Impurity - Double CD (5/2005)
(Acoustic Version) - History - The Singles 85-91 - LP (plus Bonus 12") (3/92)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Raw Melody
Men CD - CD (5/91)
(Hamburg Sporthalle, 06/11/90) - Raw Melody Men CD - Double LP (5/91)
(Berlin Eissporthalle, 05/11/90) - BBC Radio One Live in Concert - CD (12/93)
(Remastered) - Impurity - Double CD (5/2005)
(Europe, UK Tour 02-03) - Justin Sullivan and Friends - Tales of the Road - CD (3/04)
Oct.-Dec. 90 - Impurity Tour (UK, Europe)
14/02/91 - Marquee, London
Dez. 91 - UK, Germany Tour
24/07/90 - Justin Sullivan and Joolz - Hackney
Empire, London
Oct. 91 - Red Sky Coven - Germany, Vienna Tour
Jan.-Feb. 94 - Red Sky Coven - Germany, Amsterdam Tour
Aug. 98 - Justin Sullivan - Germany Tour
Jan. 99 - Red Sky Coven - Germany Tour
30/09/99 - Justin Sullivan - Markthalle, Hamburg (Move for Mumia)
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(Sullivan)
Across the flatlands we came out of nowhere special
Like a peasant revolution - makeshift weapons in our hands
We crashed the gates so hard we'd never heard that kind of sound before
And braced ourselves for victory and the spoils of the land
Defences melt away before our frozen blank surprise
From the palace now we stare into a million waiting eyes
Ch:
I've got my trophies on the wall
The heads I've hunted down the hall
And I guard my winnings well
Carry them with me when I fall
Now the daylight hours pass
Like the people I have lost
In the triumph of the hour
In the bloody cause - lust for power
Like a vision she dances through the shafts of light
Everything I've ever dreamed about focused true and bright
And fortune opens up the ground, blackens out the sky
I kissed her once, I kissed her twice
But I couldn't remember why
When I was young they taught me well to always play to win
But they never said what happens when you've won the bloody game
Ch
And all desire is satisfied
But still the hunt goes on
It's funny how this feeling stays
With all the reasons gone
We've seen them fat and bloated those who once could hold
a flame
I've run for home and words gone by but nothing seems the same
I can watch the world in secrecy
From one side of this glass
From the other my reflection and I don't know which is worse
The streets are lined with glittering stores and a million
fatted calves
I can catch myself sometimes these days and all I do is laugh, laugh
Ch
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Impurity - CD (9/90)
Impurity - LP (9/90)
(Remastered) - Impurity - Double CD (5/2005)
(Paris La Cigale, 16/05/98) - New Model Army
. . . & Nobody Else - CD (8/99)
(High Tour 07/08) - Fuck Texas,
Sing for Us - CD (11/08)
Justin Sullivan and Friends - DVD (10/04)
14/02/91 - Marquee, London
Mar.-May 91 - Europe Tour (Partly as Raw Melody Men)
Sep. 91 - USA, Canada Tour
Dez. 91 - UK, Germany Tour
Feb.-May 98 - Nobody Else Tour (UK, Europe)
Oct.-Dec. 98 - Europe, UK Tour
Feb. 99 - UK Tour
01/04/99; last update01/11/09